Faith

“This [is a] strange argument that this Twitter account [Ms. Ramani’s], the court didn’t tell me [Ms. Ramani] to save so I didn’t. How can one take a defence like this? She knows a criminal complaint is pending against her. These are all tweets. They were all primary evidence. Can she destroy evidence? Another criminal case can be made out,” Ms. Luthra told the court. … [Read more...] about #MeToo: Another case can be made against Ramani for deleting her Twitter account, Akbar tells court

This is also about — I think — our relationship with failure. We all fail. Sometimes we fail to become the people we want to be. The last season of Mad Men had a beautiful line about this: “Not every little girl gets to do what they want. The world cannot support that many ballerinas.” Other times, we fail with friends, with family. And so we latch on to our idols and keep expecting them to succeed all the time — it’s a vicarious form of achievement. We do through them what we cannot do ourselves. We win through them, we travel the world through them, we bask in the praise bestowed on them, as though we were somehow personally involved in shaping them, making them the successes they are today. And when the great flame begins to flicker, we are terrified of being cast off into the darkness all over again, alone with our failures. … [Read more...] about Tennis lessons

Her documentary work, research and shooting, had taken so many months that she felt cheated that they had a small audience. While she worked on India Cabaret, an examination of Indian patriarchal society's involvement in the strip-club scene, she lived with cabaret artists for four months. "I was mistaken for a stripper," said Nair, who was in her mid 20s then. Her family also thought she had become a stripper, she said chuckling, adding her name was temporarily removed from the family tree. … [Read more...] about Mira Nair, Abraham Verghese in conversation